Brendan Liaw game 2.
Sam Macken — an orchestral musician from Boulder, Colorado
Romy Negrin — a graduate student from New York, New York
Brendan Liaw — a recent graduate and stay-at-home son from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $13,599)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan | $6,000 | $8,400 | $25,200 |
$25,199
2-day champion: $38,798 |
$22,000
27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Romy | $800 | $1,800 | $12,600 |
$0
3rd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
15 R, 2 W |
| Sam | $-1,200 | $-600 | $10,600 |
$1
2nd place: $3,000 |
$11,200
13 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[11]
Changing which Bill paid her bills, this "Peerless Lady Wing Shot" left Buffalo Bill for Pawnee Bill's Frontier Exhibition
Annie Oakley
Brendan
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$200
[17]
Also a prefix in front of "-fiche" or "-cosm", it describes the itty-bitty
micro
Romy
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$200
[26]
In "Her", she voiced the supportive A.I. Samantha, who's in a relationship with Theodore & a few hundred others
Johansson
Brendan
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$200
[25]
In 2024 this retailer founded by a man named James opened its first new anchor store in 8 years at N.J.'s Willowbrook Mall
JCPenney
Brendan
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$200
[8]
Let's head to the Bourbon District in downtown this city, the largest in its commonwealth
Louisville
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$200
[24]
A way to weigh gold vs. silver was the discovery that according to legend made Archimedes say this, meaning "I have found it!"
Eureka!
Brendan
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$400
[10]
In 1964 James Chaney, Michael Schwerner & Andrew Goodman were murdered fighting for civil rights in this state
Mississippi
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$400
[15]
Dizygotic twins are this type of twins from 2 eggs
fraternal
Sam
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$400
[23]
This term is used for the androids that Rick Deckard is tasked with tracking down & "retiring" in "Blade Runner"
replicants
Romy
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$400
[22]
A 2023 book about this lifestyle clothing retailer is called "The Kingdom of Prep"
J. Crew
Brendan
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$400
[7]
About a 7-hour drive from West Virginia to South Carolina on I-77 & I-26 will take you from one biggest city called this to another
Charleston
Brendan
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$400
[27]
I googled this service & found that in 2009 it replaced Microsoft Live Search
Bing
Romy
|
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$600
[9]
The Society of Friends expelled her in 1794 when she married James but in 1809, she made new friends as first lady
Dolley Madison
Brendan
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$600
[14]
Don't get verklempt when I tell you your hair is all this word for messy that also ends in "PT"
unkempt
Sam
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$600
[19]
In "Terminator 2", the resistance fights against this 6-letter A.I., which became self-aware on Aug. 29, 1997--Judgment Day
Skynet
Sam
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$600
[21]
A logo of a fella just wearing his silks has been used by this underwear retailer
Jockey
Romy
|
$800
[5]
I'm goin' to this city in Kansas, about 140 miles from Topeka forevermore / It's on the Arkansas, & grown a lot since 1864
Wichita
Sam
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$600
[28]
ATV movie with Tony Curtis as David O. Selznick & Edward Winter as Clark Gable was about the search for an actress to play her
Scarlett O'Hara
Romy
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$800
[3]
We'll say reactions were mixed after this nuclear plant notorious from a 1979 accident announced plans to restart in 2024
Three Mile Island
Brendan
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$800
[13]
The OED has citations back to 1906 for this trio of adjectives describing one who's lanky, swarthy & hunky
tall, dark & handsome
Romy
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$800
[18]
In a 2015 film, it's the "Age of" this hostile A.I. program bent on humanity's destruction, & it's up to the Avengers to stop it
Ultron
Brendan
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$800
[16]
Juice Club was the original name of this smoothie shop founded in San Luis Obispo
Jamba Juice
Brendan
|
DD
$1,000
[6]
A city with this name has the highest population in 2 coastal states
Portland
Sam
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$800
[29]
Abby Wambach, Tony Robbins & Katie Holmes are just a few who swear by Viktor Frankl's book "Man's Search for" this
Meaning
Brendan
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$1,000
[4]
What would become Exxon, Mobil, Amoco & Chevron were all part of this company that got dissolved in 1911
Standard Oil
Brendan
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$1,000
[12]
Opposite windward, it's the side of a boat sheltered from the wind
leeward
Brendan
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$1,000
[2]
A powerful robot named Gorthelps an alien warn Earth about its possible destruction in 1951's "The Day the Earth" did this
Stood Still
Brendan
Sam
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$1,000
[20]
The slogan of this place that offers "quick" oil changes is "Leave Worry Behind"
Jiffy Lube
Romy
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$1,000
[1]
This Delaware non-capital has a touch over 70,000 people (that's how many see a big game at L.A.'s So Fi Stadium)
Wilmington
Brendan
Sam
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$1,000
[30]
On yet another search for El Dorado, this 17th century English explorer angered the Spanish, leading to his execution
Walter Raleigh
Brendan
Romy
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$400
[30]
The Kallawaya people of these mountains, living just north of Lake Titicaca, were among the first to discover the uses of quinine & coca
the Andes
Sam
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$400
[17]
This 3-word phrase often follows "Police Line" in black letters on yellow tape
Do Not Cross
Romy
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$400
[29]
The Late Jurassic:"The One Where" these land animals "Dominated "
Dinosaurs
Brendan
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$400
[28]
Her "N or M?" thriller from 1941 led to an investigation by MI5
Agatha Christie
Romy
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$400
[27]
"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's" this in a 1953 smash hit song for Dean Martin
amore
Brendan
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$400
[26]
The OED defines it as "a nonsense word, originally used esp. by children" & "made popular by... 'Mary Poppins"'
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Sam
|
|
$800
[19]
In the 1920s what became Yugoslavia had the unwieldy name "Kingdom of" them, "Croats & Slovenes"
Serbs
Brendan
Romy
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$800
[18]
Because of the popularity of pirates with kids, a character called Mr. Yuk was created to replace this pair to warn of poison
a skull & crossbones
Brendan
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$800
[16]
The Hadean Eon:"The One Where We Think" this celestial body "Formed by a Collision"
the Moon
Romy
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$800
[7]
This Black novelist & essayist also wrote a script for a Malcolm X biopic, never filmed but published as "One Day When I Was Lost"
Baldwin
Brendan
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$800
[22]
You won't be cryin' all the time if you know Elvis Presley's hit "Don't Be Cruel" had this tune on the flipside
"Hound Dog"
Sam
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$800
[11]
Rigel is one of these extremely large & brilliant stars with luminosities that can be 350,000 times that of the Sun
a supergiant
Brendan
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$1,600
[3]
Vaj nakh, "Our People", is the collective self-name of the Ingush & this other Muslim people who have rebelled against Russia
the Chechnyans (the Chechens)
Brendan
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$1,200
[25]
Labels on extra strength Tylenol say, "Do not use if you are allergic to" this "or any of the inactive ingredients"
acetaminophen
Sam
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$1,200
[13]
The Cryogenian Period:"The One Where Earth Iced Over & Looked Like" one of these projectiles
Snowball
Sam
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$1,200
[5]
Hewrote the 1957 play "Fin de partie" in French & translated it into English himself
Beckett
Romy
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$1,200
[12]
In 1955, before patrolling a small N.C. TV town, this actor was a Top 40 man with "Make Yourself Comfortable"
Andy Griffith
Brendan
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$1,200
[9]
It's the part of the mind that provides moral standards, per Freud
superego
Sam
|
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$2,000
[4]
This African capital has amemorialto the Tutsi victims of genocide in the 1990s
Kigali
Brendan
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$1,600
[24]
"The physician must... do no harm", says this ancient's "of the Epidemics"
Hippocrates
Brendan
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DD
$2,000
[15]
The Carnian Pluvial episode:"The One Where It" did this "for 2 Million Years"
Rain(ed)
Sam
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$1,600
[2]
After working for a muckraking magazine in the early 1900s, she began to write about her childhood memories of Nebraska
Willa Cather
Brendan
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$1,600
[20]
Thisfrequent movie co-star of Rock Hudson was a teenager when shejoined Les Brown's Big Band as a singer in 1940
Doris Day
Romy
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$1,600
[1]
This verb means to become old, out of date or retired
superannuate
Romy
|
|
DD
$4,400
[8]
This people of Montana called themselves by a word for "people of the large-beaked bird"; whites knew them as just this bird
the Crow
Brendan
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$2,000
[23]
Dwight Eisenhower famously cautioned Americans to beware the rising influence of this hyphenated "complex"
military-industrial
Brendan
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$2,000
[14]
The Permian mass extinction:"The One Where" the last of these 3-segmented marine arthropods "Bites the Dust"
Trilobites
Sam
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$2,000
[6]
James Whistler & others accused this wit of plagiarism; he said, "Of course I plagiarize. It is the privilege of the appreciative man"
Wilde
Romy
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$2,000
[21]
Patty, Maxene & LaVerne were these 3 singing sisters who sang the wartime hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"
The Andrews Sisters
Romy
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$2,000
[10]
Many violent winds are associated with these storms formed by updrafts around a vertical axis
supercell
Sam
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Headlines read of the fall of Hama on December 5, Homs on December 7 & this city on December 8
Damascus